1.   The management has been trying to buy off union activists with substantial pay offers.

2.   The workers have called off their strike in anticipation of a pay offer.

3.   Unions described the pay offer as derisory.

4.   Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike.

5.   UNISON members have already voted by per cent to per cent to reject the local government pay offer.

6.   A revised pay offer for drivers at Western Scottish Buses was agreed between both sides at the Glasgow offices of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service yesterday.

7.   In return, BA raised a pay offer and made other concessions, averting a stoppage that would have disrupted travel at the height of the summer tourist season.

8.   Nurses will be voting on a new pay offer recommended by their union.

9.   On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed the most generous pay offer to emerge from the capital.

10.   Peters said the value of the pay offer could not definitively be quantified as it is part of a total package.